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DIRECTORS
Erik
Arnold is the group Managing Director, based in the UK.
He works on: evaluation, science, technology and innovation
policy; industry policy; regional and industrial development;
benchmarking; and the design and management of policies and
programmes. He worked formerly at the Science Policy Research
Unit, the University of Sussex, the European Commission and
as a management consultant with Booz.Allen & Hamilton.
He holds a BA (Hons) in English literature, an MSc in Science
& Technology Policy and a DPhil in economics, all from
the University of Sussex. He is an Honorary Fellow of the
Centre for Research in Innovation Management (CENTRIM), University
of Brighton. He is bilingual (Norwegian/Swedish and English)
and also works in German and French.
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Dr Patries
Boekholt is director of Technopolis BV in Amsterdam.
She has worked in science, technological development and innovation
(RTDI) policy for over 15 years. Her activities include international
benchmark and policy studies, programme management advice and
evaluations of research and development programmes as well as
initiatives for innovation and cluster development. She has
worked in many European countries and for several international
organisations particularly the European Commission. She has
worked with regions in Austria, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands
and the UK to develop regional innovation strategies. The evaluations
she has conducted include amongst others the Dutch programme
for Technological Top Institutes, the EUREKA programme MEDEA+,
the German Microsystems Technologies Programme, the Flemish
micro-electronics institute IMEC and Dutch cluster policy. She
has also taken part in several Annual Monitoring panels of the
Fifth and Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission.
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Isabelle
Collins joined Technopolis in April 2002 from Deloitte
& Touche, Brussels, where she was a senior manager. She
holds an MBA from the University of Warwick, a Postgraduate
Certificate in Education from the University of London and
a BSc(Hons) in Estate Management from the University of Reading.
The majority of Isabelle’s experience is in European
and UK Public Policy work in the field of organisational structures
and reform, information society and regional development and
business support. This includes evaluation, research, and
project management. Currently she is carrying out a strategic
evaluation of the management methods of EU programmes for
the European Commission, and a cost-effectiveness study concerning
the option of an executive agency for the management of Community
programmes in the field of education and culture also for
the European Commission. She is also working on the monitoring
strategy and requirements for the Information Society Technologies
(IST) programme of the 6th Framework Programme for RTD involving
an assessment of the new instruments and the development of
key performance indicators. She is bilingual (English and
French).
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Şirin
Elçi is director of the Ankara office of Technopolis,
which started operations in 2006. She has over ten years of
experience in research, technology development and innovation
(RTDI) systems and strategies. She formerly worked as a manager
for the Technology Development Foundation of Turkey (TTGV)
where she mainly dealt with the design, implementation, and
monitoring and evaluation of the RTDI support programmes as
well as the formulation and implementation of the national
RTDI policies.
Şirin has provided advice and support to the World Bank
in international and national projects, the Scientific and
Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) on various
topics including technology foresight, and a variety of agencies
and organisations in Turkey and in the EU. She has also actively
taken part in international and national networks and task
forces including those of the Association for Technology Implementation
in Europe (TAFTIE). She is the national correspondent for
the European Trend Chart on Innovation and ERAWATCH Baseload
Inventory.
Şirin also carries out activities to raise awareness
on and create a culture of innovation in Turkey, and her recent
efforts yielded the integration of innovation in the national
education curricula. She is the president of the Turkish Technology
Management Association and a member of the International Association
for Management of Technology (IAMOT), the International Society
for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) and the Turkish
National Innovation Initiative.
Şirin holds Master of Science Degree in Science and Technology
Policy Studies from the Middle East Technical University and
Associate of Science in Management and Business Administration
from the American Management and Business Administration Institute.
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Sven
Faugert is an economist and has a long and wide experience
as a consultant in evaluation and as a senior civil servant.
He founded Faugert & Co Utvärdering in 1992 and has
worked with evaluation in different positions for 35 years.
Current areas of interest include evaluation as a general
tool for organizational learning and development, and evaluation
of R&D programs and centres of excellence in R&D.
Recent evaluations have concerned different policy instruments
in the R&D field, process efficiency of agencies in the
environmental policy field as well as competence development
programs in different organisations.
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Philippe
Larrue has been working for ten years on technology transfer,
foresight, research and innovation policy. He holds a PhD
in economics of innovation from the University of Bordeaux
on the issue of technological dynamics in the early stage
of innovation processes.
His previous experience includes two years at the INSEAD Strategy
Department where he focused on venture creation, venture capital
and industrial dynamics. He has also worked for the ADIT (French
Government Agency for the Diffusion of Technological Information)
and the RIETI ("Think-tank" of the Japanese Ministry
of Economy Trade and Industry).
Since joining Technopolis in 2004, Philippe has worked mainly
on projects related to evaluation and strategy in public policies
for research, innovation and education. His current projects
include mapping alternative vehicle technology strategies
for the French Ministry of Transport, a study into the community
framework for RDI state aids, and the coordination of the
impact assessment of the Framework Programmes 5 and 6 environment
projects.
Philippe is fluently bilingual (French and English) and speak
some Japanese.
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Fritz
Ohler directs Technopolis' operation in Austria. Fritz
works on innovation and technology policy design and strategy
building as well as technology and innovation policy evaluation.
He has provided advice and assistance to ministries and government
agencies in their needs to design, implement and evaluate
innovation and technology policies. Previously Fritz worked
at the Austrian Research Centre in Seibersdorf where he was
the Head of Business Field Technology Policy. He holds a Dipl.Ing.
in Technical Mathematics and Technical Physics and has lectured
on the Social Shaping of Technology and on Technology Assessment.
He is fluently bilingual (German and English)
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Alasdair
Reid directs the Technopolis office in Brussels. He has
fifteen years of experience in policy research and in providing
advice to the European Commission services, national and regional
authorities. His work has supported agencies and partnerships
active in the fields of regional economic development, innovation
and enterprise policies. Following a first two-years as an
economist in Coopers & Lybrand’s European office
(Brussels), he gained a Masters and then spent three years
as a researcher on regional innovation policies at the University
of Louvain (Belgium). Subsequently, he managed the EU funded
programme of regional innovation strategies from 1996 to 1999.
He then led a range of multi-country evaluation and innovation
related studies for the Belgian consultancy ADE S.A.. Since
2004, he has been managing the European Innovation TrendChart’s
policy monitoring network. Current projects include support
to the European Commission for the development of future 2007-13
EU Structural (regional) Funds actions in the fields of innovation
and knowledge, a two year study on sectoral innovation systems
in Europe and a study on the impact of mergers on innovation.
He has published widely on innovation policy in both books
and journals. Alasdair holds economic degrees from Heriot-Watt
(Edinburgh) and UCL (Belgium). He is fluently bilingual (English
and French) and speaks some Spanish.
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Paul
Simmonds is a director and co-owner of Technopolis
with long-standing experience of research and innovation policy
studies and evaluations, as well as a longstanding interest
in technology foresight. He holds a BA (Hons) degree in Geography
and an MSc in Science and Technology Policy from SPRU at the
University of Sussex. He trained originally as a mechanical
engineer. Notable evaluations include the Impact of the EU
Framework Programmes (FP4, FP5, FP6) in the UK for the OST,
the Strategic Review of the UK LINK scheme, an evaluation
of the impacts of the UK's civil space programme (2001, 2007)
and an evaluation of the HSC's Nuclear Safety Advisory Committee.
Paul has wide-ranging experience of designing and implementing
M&E frameworks in the context of research and innovation
programmes, with current relevant assignments including the
work for SEEDA on its Innovation Advisory Service, which began
with the design and implementation of an M&E plan with
performance metrics, a mid-term evaluation in 2007 using those
metrics and an end-of-programme evaluation scheduled for 2009.
Other M&E projects include the development of an ex ante
assessment framework for Birmingham science city, the development
of an outcome evaluation framework to structure the assessment
of the Strategy for Success programme being run by One Northeast
and a similar exercise for Defra in connection with two of
its sustainability research programmes.
The following is an additional selection of Paul's current
and recent policy studies and evaluations
- Evaluation of FP6 contributions to space, predominantly
GMES, for Dg Enterprise
- An economic impact assessment for DIUS of the Cambridge
MIT Institute (CMI), a £65 million transatlantic collaboration
- Operational research and user work groups to develop
good practice around knowledge transfer in the arts and
humanities, for the AHRC
- Panel member of the HEFCE research evaluation framework
development team, working on the design and market testing
of various metric-based performance measurement systems
- Evaluation of the second round of the HEFCE science research
investment fund (SRIF2), which includes an online survey
of all universities and PIs as well as selected impact case
studies
- Coordination of Technopolis' contribution to the R&D
indicators development project, RINDICATE, being carried
out for DG Research of the European Commission
- Evaluation of cross-border knowledge transfer in the
social sciences, for the Norface ERANET
- An evaluation of the policy outcomes arising from two
Defra R&D programmes, for the Sustainable Consumption
and Production team within Defra
- A study on practical experiences of international research
collaboration involving UK academics and their counterparts
in China and India
- An economic impact assessment of One NorthEast' Strategy
for Success programme, which is a £200 million, six-year
programme to develop world-class technological capability
in strategic and emerging markets
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STAFF
Rebecca
Allinson focuses on European and UK Public Policy
consultancy work in the field of Information Society Technologies
(IST), educational technologies and lifelong learning. Before
joining Technopolis, she worked as a Senior Research Manager
at ECOTEC Research and Consulting Ltd running a project supporting
educational technology projects for the European Commission's
IST programme. Other work has included evaluation and benchmarking
work for the DfES, analysing best practice in learner support
mechanisms for the UK ADAPT programme and doing a study for
the JRC (IPTS) to look at Lifelong Learning, Information and
Communication Technology and Employability. Rebecca holds
a Masters in Silicon Chemistry from the University of Bordeaux
and a BSc (Hons) Biological Chemistry from King's Collegue
London. She is fluent in English & French.
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Tomas
Åström works on research and innovation policy
studies and on programme evaluations. He has been associated
with Faugert & Co and Technopolis since early 2006. Tomas
holds an MSc in Aeronautical Engineering and a PhD in Lightweight
Structures, both from the Royal Institute of Technology (Kungl
Tekniska Högskolan, KTH) in Stockholm. Tomas was full
professor in Lightweight Structures at KTH and subsequently
chief executive officer of IFP SICOMP AB/IFP Research AB (research
institute in polymer material science) in Mölndal, Sweden.
He is fluently bilingual in Swedish and English.
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Hanneke
Bodewes joined Technopolis Amsterdam in 2006. Her fields
of interest are developments in research and innovation policy,
national and regional innovation systems and evaluation of
organisational performance. Hanneke is involved in European
projects, where she reports on the Netherlands innovation
policy (TrendChart) and research policy (ERAwatch). Other
activities involve designing and organising Trend Chart Policy
Workshops on behalf of the European Commission’s DG
Enterprise and Industry (2006), the organisation of a conference
on innovative regions (2007) and programme management activities
for the Flemish IWT.
Before joining the company Hanneke worked at the Centre for
Studies of Science, Technology and Society at the University
of Twente, where she was involved in the evaluation of the
research policy of a Dutch health foundation. During her studies
she specialised in innovation management and researched the
role of intermediary organisations in Dutch agricultural innovation
systems. Hanneke holds an MSc in Philosophy of Science, Technology
and Society from the University of Twente. She is fluent in
Dutch and English and he has a good working knowledge of German.
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Pierre
Bourgogne is currently a free lance consultant (cairn-innovation),
associated to Technopolis. He is expert in regional innovation
policy and became Vice-President of the (French) Federation
of Economic Intelligence Professionals in January 2007.
After 13 years in industrial R&D, he has worked for more
than 25 years in innovation management and policy. He was
industrial liaison officer of an engineering school, started
2 high tech companies, managed a technology platform and a
technological pole and was Director of Innovation at the Regional
Council of Lorraine for 7 years. In this last position, he
was in charge of projects related to the regional innovation
system among companies, technological intermediaries, academic
start-ups clusters and poles of competitiveness (super clusters)
as well as being responsible for strategic intelligence, knowledge
management and for introducing the Region of Lorraine into
various European networks, programmes and projects. He currently
works with: SME needs for innovation and development, regional
innovation strategies and innovation systems, strategic intelligence,
European dimension of regional innovation strategy, governance
of innovation.
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Neil
Brown joined Technopolis UK as a consultant in 2006. Prior
to joining the company, Neil worked as a researcher at Step
Ahead Research, where he was involved in delivering a broad
range of projects in the fields of economic development, regeneration,
labour market and skills research. He is an experienced researcher
who has developed strong skills in data analysis, research
and reporting. He was particularly involved in business sector
evaluations and performance monitoring projects and most recently
contributed to evaluations of the EQUAL programme in Brighton
and Hove and the Area Investment Frameworks in Sussex.
Neil holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Local and Regional
Economic Development from the Institute of Economic Development
Trust (Universities of Sheffield Hallam, Durham and Coventry).
He also holds a BSc Hons degree in Economics from the University
of York. Neil’s mother tongue is English.
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Nelly
Bruno joined the Brussels office in March 2007. She holds
a Master of Arts in European economic studies from the College
of Europe in Bruges (2006). After a 5-years integrated programme
between the University Paris X in France (Master in international
economics, 2004) and the University J.Gutenberg in Mainz in
Germany (Diplom Volkswirtin, 2004), she studied in the University
Paris XI (Master ‘European firm and market’, 2005).
She did an internship within the Technopolis France office
in 2005 where she was notably involved in the setting up of
a student-observatory for the region of Angers, in the national
innovation system foresight exercise FutuRIS as well as in
the study on the development of the fuel cell strategy in
the transport area for the French Ministry of Equipment and
Transport.
Before joining the Brussels office, she did a traineeship
within the European Commission, DG-INFSO, Unit F4 'New Infrastructure
Paradigms & Experimental Facilities' where she had ample
opportunities to deal with latest European innovation policies
developments (notably the European network of Living Labs).
Nelly is currently contributing to a study on the synergies
between the Seventh Research Framework Programme, the Competitiveness
and Innovation programme and the Structural Funds. She is
also involved in a study on counterfeiting and other IPR abuses
as well as in the Sectoral Innovation Watch project (SYSTEMATIC).
She speaks fluently French, has an excellent knowledge of
English and German and a basic one of Russian.
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Sophie
Bussillet joined Technopolis as a consultant in January
2003. She graduated from the Institute of Political Studies
(Sciences-Po) of Bordeaux in 2001. She also holds a Master's
degree in research (« Political sociology and public
policies ») from Sciences-Po in Paris. Her thesis there
examined French public policies promoting innovation, mainly
in the field of biotechnologies related to health. Sophie
has research interests in the French innovation system and
its European and international comparators and in issues related
to health biotechnologies, especially thse associated with
economic and social development.
At Technopolis France, Sophie has worked on iinnovation, 'valorisation'
of public research, the financing of innovative companies,
research management in universities, French cooperation actions
in research for development (for CIRAD, the French Embassy
in Morocco and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and
energy issueswhere she has assessed the opportunities for
a European Research Area in non-nuclear energies.
Sophie has contributed to evaluations at regional, national
and European level: the impact assessment of European SME
specific research schemes, impact assessment of the French
corporate tax credit for research expenses and evaluations
of several French research networks and programmes. She participated
in a study aiming at improving the use of evaluation in the
European Commission.
Sophie manages the French contribution to the European projects
ERAWATCH and INNO-Policy Trend Chart.
Sophie is fluent in French and English. She also has a working
knowledge of German and Spanish.
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Born in Paris, in 1971, Yann
Cadiou holds a PhD in economics at Paris VII University
on a comparison between French and Japanese innovation system
in the context of globalisation(2001). His main areas of competence
are macroeconomic analysis; the study of the trajectories
of regional and national research and innovation systems,
science-technology-economy relationships, Japanese and South-eastern
Asian countries economies. He has major experience with the
production and use of S&T indicators for policy at regional,
national and international level. Yann’s PhD research
was financed by the French Ministry of Research. He teaches
Economics of Innovation at Paris VII University.
Prior to joining Technopolis in 2006, Yann worked as project
manager at the Observatoire des Sciences et des Technique
(OST), the French national agency in charge of the production
of S&T indicators, especially relating to research, development
and innovation systems for actors and decision makers, on
regional, national, EU and international level.
At the OST, he was responsible of the regional/sub national
studies: data processing and statistics, production of science
and technology indicators, strategic evaluation and science
policy analyses. He has developed new indicators for a better
assessment of the knowledge-based economy, particularly at
the sub-regional level.
Yann is a French native speaker, works in English and has
notions of German.
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John
Clark works on projects concerned with the socio-economic
impact of technological change, including the relation between
innovation and competitiveness, and assessments of the nature
and impacts of large Government-sponsored technology programmes.
He holds a BSc and DPhil in Physics from the University of
Sussex, and an MSc in Economics from the London School of
Economics.
Previous experience includes a 10-year research fellowship
at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex,
working mainly on quantitative assessments of the impact of
technical change on the economy and society. He has also worked
as an Operational Researcher in several Government departments,
including the UK Treasury.
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Célia
Couchot provides general administrative support to
our Brighton-based Directors and Consultants and has operational
responsibility for a range of databases and information systems.
She is also involved in a number of projects as a research
assistant and is responsible for the maintenance and update
of our web site and Intranet pages. Célia holds a Business
Management Diploma from the University of Technology of Caen.
She is fluently bilingual (French and English).
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Soheir
Dani holds a Master’s degree in “International
economics and development policy” from the University
of Paris - Sorbonne. Her thesis relates to the evaluation
methodologies used by international funders. Prior to joining
Technopolis, Soheir worked at UNESCO’s Internal Oversight
Service (Evaluation Section). She has a special interest in
issues related to development policies with a focus on knowledge
and technology transfer. Recent projects include work on benchmarks
of European research and innovation policies, foresight studies
including literature review in the field of energy and economic
growth, evaluation of French incubators, evaluation of French
audiovisual and media policy in the Arab States, and identification
‘best practices’ in the use of programme delivery
mechanisms (UNESCO). Soheir works in French and English, and
has a basic knowledge of Spanish and Arabic.
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Jasper
Deuten joined Technopolis in 2003. He worked on consultancy
projects for a variety of clients such as the European Commission,
the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, IWT-Flanders, the
National Technology Agency of Finland (Tekes) and the Research
Council of Norway. His main fields of interest are research
and innovation policy and enterprise & industry policy.
Before he joined Technopolis, Jasper worked as researcher
at the Centre for Studies of Science, Technology and Society
at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Jasper holds
a PhD with a dissertation on institutionalisation and standardisation
of technological knowledge. He also has an MSc in Business
Administration and an MSc in Philosophy of Science, Technology
and Society, both from the University of Twente.
Jasper is fluent in English and Dutch and has a working knowledge
of German.
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Karin
Eduards is a Behavioural Scientist. She has an MA in Social
Sciences from Stockholm University, department of Education.
Her academic work there concentrated on the creation of knowledge
and power relations within organisations.
Karin joined Faugert and Co in 2004. Before that she worked
as a hotel manager within the service industry.
Karin specialises in organisation-, impact- and process evaluations
within the public sector. She is currently focusing on evaluating
the impacts of policy measures designed to eliminate risks
arising in the use of chemicals. She also teaches evaluation
at Faugert & Co's open courses.
Karin's mother tongue is Swedish; she is fully proficient
in English and is well acquainted with French and German,
Danish and Norwegian.
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Patrick
Eparvier joined the team of Technopolis France in January
2006. He holds a PhD in economics from the University Lyon
2 (2002). In 1997, he joined the team of GATE (Groupe d’Analyse
et de Théorie Economique), a joint research lab of
CNRS and University Lyon 2, as a researcher in economics of
technical change. In 1999, for the DAFSA Group located in
Paris, he worked as a consultant in the field of health. In
2000, he joined the OECD’s Directorate of Science, Technology
and Industry for which he was in charge of several projects
related to R&D indicators. In 2004 and 2005, he worked
as an economist for the Institute for Prospective Technological
Studies (IPTS), one of the European Commission’s research
centres, located in Seville in Spain. His activities were
focused on the evaluation of public policies in relation with
the Lisbon Strategy and the 3% target. At Technopolis France,
Patrick participated in the evaluation of the French Research
Tax Credit. He performed a comparative evaluation of several
national research funding agencies. He is the French country
correspondent for the projects Trendchart and Erawatch run
by the European Commission. Patrick is a French native speaker
and is fluent is English.
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Annelie
Eriksson is a political scientist and has worked both
in the private and public sector as well as with non-profit
organisations. Annelie joined Faugert & Co Utvärdering
in 1998 and has since then participated in and conducted several
evaluations and given counselling and training on the topic
of evaluation. Her evaluation experience includes R&D
programmes, environment, skills and education, gender equality,
company and regional development etc.
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Marie-Louise
Eriksson joined Faugert & Co Utvärdering and
Technopolis Sweden in 2005. She holds Master of Social Science
in Human geography from Uppsala University and a PhD in Technology
and Social Change, from Linköping University, both in
Sweden. In her research Marie-Louise has focused on the implementation
of innovation policy at the regional level from a policy learning
perspective. At Faugert & Co Utvärdering, Marie-Louise
conducts evaluations and studies of research and innovation
policy initiatives. Marie-Louise is fluent in Swedish and
English.
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Jan-Frens
van Giessel joined Technopolis BV in 2003 as a consultant.
He specialises in the innovation and research policy field.
His work includes evaluation of innovation programmes and
research institutes at national and international level, benchmarking
of (innovation) policy initiatives, and designing and organising
international conferences and workshops. His current research
interest is mainly focussed on stimulating innovation in the
area of energy and sustainability, financing of innovative
companies and high-tech starters in particular, and how Intellectual
Property Rights can be used in the innovation process. Jan-Frens
holds an MSc in Science & Innovation Management from the
University of Utrecht. He is fluent in Dutch (mother tongue)
and English and he has a good working knowledge of German.
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Anton
Geyer joined Technopolis in 2002. He specialises in research
programme design and programme evaluation in the fields of
industrial technologies, transport technologies and sustainable
development. Among recent assignments Anton has been responsible
for are: leading the ex-post evaluation of the German R&D
programme ‘Tomorrow’s Production Technologies’,
leading the ex-post evaluation of the German R&D funding
scheme ‘Technology for Sustainable Development’
and leading the interim evaluation of the Austrian technology
promotion programme ‘Intelligent Transport Systems and
Services’. Anton has also extensive knowledge in the
area of programmes to strengthen R&D cooperation between
Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) and industry. He was
member of the expert panel that carried out the EUREKA impact
assessment exercise in 2005-6.
Prior to joining Technopolis, Anton worked as a research fellow
at the European Commission's Institute for Prospective Technological
Studies (IPTS) in Seville, Spain. There he carried out a scenario
exercise on the future of manufacturing in Europe and contributed
to the set-up of a monitoring scheme for industrial research
investment in Europe.
Anton holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Graz University
of Technology and an MSc in Technology and Innovation Management
from SPRU-University of Sussex. Anton is fluent in English
and German.
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Barbara
Good joined Technopolis as a consultant in February 2007,
from the Socio-Economic Institute at the University of Zürich,
Department of Innovation Economics and Innovation Policy,
where she worked as a lecturer and researcher. Her areas of
specialisation are innovation policy, economics of innovation
and evaluation. She has co-authored several books on the Swiss
innovation system and Swiss innovation policy and worked as
an evaluator for the Swiss federal government. Barbara also
worked as a researcher at the ETH Zürich, at the Department
of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Environmental Policy
and Economics, and at the Institute of Political Science,
at the University of Zürich.
Barbara holds a PhD in Political Science with Economics and
an M.A. in Political Science and Economics, both from the
University of Zürich. In addition, she has a degree in
applied modern languages.
Barbara is a German native speaker and is fluent in English
and French. She has a working knowledge of Italian.
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Karen
Henderson is the Office Manager at Technopolis Limited.
She holds a BA (Hons) in Business Studies with Economics and
a Diploma in Economics. Karen has overall responsibility for
internal administration and project management systems and
maintains our quality procedures. In addition to working on
specific projects, including involvement as the coordinator
for a number of contracts, Karen has responsibility for the
project management of expressions of interest and calls for
applications with regard to inclusion on Expert and Service
Provider lists for various Directorate Generals of the European
Commission and UK public bodies. Before joining Technopolis,
Karen was a regional manager with a domiciliary optical company..
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Rurik
Holmberg joined Faugert &Co Utvärdering as a
consultant in January 2008.
He is a graduate, in economics and political science, from
Åbo Akademi University in Finland. After receiving his
MSc, he worked with international organizations for several
years. He has also worked as a journalist and as a lecturer
in economics. His PhD, currently awaiting award, was based
on a study of technological lock-in in energy systems.
Beside his native Swedish, he speaks English, Finnish, Estonian,
Russian, German, Hungarian, and understands some Slovak.
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Damir
Horvat was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1980. He obtained
Bachelors degree in Economics at the University of Zagreb,
Faculty of Economics & Business, where he also work as
a Teaching and Research Assistant during two years. After
that experience, he moved to London, UK, where he studied
toward MBA degree at Huron University in London, and worked
for European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He joined
Brussels office in October 2007 and is mainly involved in
ERAWATCH research policy monitoring exercise. His mother tongue
is Croatian, and he also speaks English, French and basics
of Spanish.
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Tommy
Jansson is a political scientist with long experience
as an evaluator both in the private and public sectors and
as a consultant. Tommy is attached to Faugert & Co Utvärdering
since 2003, participating in and conducting evaluations of
R&D and technology transfer. He has also worked extensively
with evaluations of communication activities and campaigns,
both in Sweden and in Spain. He is fluent in Swedish, English,
Spanish, German and Basque.
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Zsuzsa
Jávorka holds a Postgraduate certificate in law
from the University of Pécs (Hungary) and an MSc in
Economics from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences
and Public Administration (Hungary). Zsuzsa joined Technopolis
in March 2008 from the Hungarian National Office for Research
and Technology (NORT) where she worked as a programme manager,
with responsibility for programme evaluation and monitoring,
and for preparing tender strategies and call for proposals.
Zsuzsa is fluently bi-lingual (Hungarian and English) and
also has a working knowledge of German.
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Leonhard
Jörg works in the area of national innovation
systems, the design of technology programme and cluster policy.
He has experience of leading and managing research projects
and specialises in survey design, interviewing and statistical
analysis. Recent projects include the evaluation of the Austrian
technology transfer programme jointly with Joanneum Research.
Prior to joining Technopolis, Leonhard was a researcher at
the Austrian Research Centre Seibersdorf (ARCS) where he was
involved in the Evaluation of the Austrian transport technology
programme (in co-operation with Technopolis). He holds an
degree in economics from the University in Vienna and a MSc
in Innovation and Technology Management from the Science Policy
Research Unit, University of Sussex. Leonhard is fluently
bilingual (German and English) and has a basic knowledge of
Italian.
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Ihsan
Karatayli has been working on research and innovation
policies and systems for more than eight years. Prior to working
as a consultant he worked for the Technology Development Foundation
of Turkey (TTGV) as an expert and assistant coordinator at
the technology development projects department. He also took
part in the projects for designing national science, technology
and innovation policies, and represented TTGV in the evaluation
network of TAFTIE (The Association for Technology Implementation
in Europe).
Ihsan then started to work as a technology management expert
in the Turkey’s leading automotive company (TEMSA).
He was mainly responsible for implementing technology management
principles for R&D teams, developing a technology roadmap
scheme, coordinating external relationships with universities
and R&D centres, national and international R&D funding
agencies and networks on R&D and innovation, establishing
and managing the intellectual property system of the company,
and coordinating the establishment of the separate R&D
company of TEMSA.
Ihsan is a member of the Turkish Innovation Association, the
Technology Management Association and the Association of Mechanical
Engineers.
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Edward
Kitching joined Technopolis in 2006. He holds a Masters
in Science, Technology and Policy Management from Manchester
Business School and PREST. During his thesis he worked in
conjunction with ICI on the use of external academics and
experts in strategy and investment decisions. Edward also
holds a BSc (Hons) in Business Administration and Information
Systems from Keele University.
During his studies he has completed work experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers,
the McLaren F1 Team and has held the post of navigator in
the Royal Air Force. Edward is a native English speaker and
also had basic understanding of French and Japanese.
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Paula
Knee joined Technopolis in March 2008 as a Senior Consultant.
She is an experienced consultant and project manager of technical
and knowledge transfer projects that bridge the industrial
and academic communities. Her career began in industrial and
public-sector applied research, in a Silicon Valley start-up
and in a former UK public laboratory, and developed into innovation
and knowledge transfer policy development, delivery and evaluation.
She has significant experience of the theory and practice
of innovation policy gained through the provision of R&D
project appraisal and selection services for government, the
evaluation of innovation programmes and the delivery of successful
knowledge transfer projects, plus advanced level study at
SPRU.
Paula has a BSc and MSc in Physics from Imperial College,
London and an MSc in Technology and Innovation Management
from SPRU.
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Fabio
Leone joined Technopolis Belgium in November 2007 as a
senior consultant. He is currently the ERAWATCH network manager.
He holds a doctorate in environmental economics. Before coming
to Technopolis Fabio worked at the Institute of Prospective
Technological Studies (EC DG JRC-IPTS) from 1994 to 2003.
He carried out and coordinated a series of projects and scientific
activities on a wide range of issues. These included assessing
the impact of environmental related regulation on innovation
and competitiveness of European industry, legislative measures
in the field of environmental protection and harmonisation
of the market, cost-benefit analyses, producer responsibility
concepts and product policies. He has also worked on sustainable
development strategy and carrying through sustainability assessments
of policy initiatives. He moved subsequently to the Chemical
Unit of the Environment Directorate General of the European
Commission (EC DG ENV-Chemicals) from 2003 to 2006. There
he was responsible for the Impact Assessment activities of
the Unit. He developed particular expertise in the field of
Chemical Regulation (REACH) impact assessment.
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Katrin
Männik is Estonian and was born in 1976. She holds
a PhD as well as an MA and BA in economics from the University
of Tartu. Katrin began working with Technopolis as a consultant
at the beginning of 2006. She is based in Tallinn where she
acts as the group's representative in the Baltic States.
Prior to joining Technopolis, Katrin has worked in science,
technology and innovation policy field for over six years
at the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU),
the University of Sussex and the Faculty of Economics and
Business Administration, at the University of Tartu. She has
worked in policy-making in the field of innovation and technology
for the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of
the Republic of Estonia.
Katrin's specific areas of interest relate to international
knowledge development and transfer, dynamic capabilities of
firms, public-private R&D co-operation, innovation systems
and policies. Her experience includes research and policy
projects on international productivity gaps, funding of multi-actor
R&D initiatives, research and innovation policy monitoring
and comparisons, appraising the use of EU Structural Funds
in support of innovation in Estonia, an evaluation of the
policy mix in use in the field of innovation, the preparation
of a national inventory of science mentoring schemes as well
as sectoral innovation surveys. Aside from her mother tongue,
Estonian, she is fluent in English and has a good command
of Russian.
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Pauline
Mattsson joined Technopolis Sweden in 2007. She holds
a M.Sc in International Business Administration and Economics
and a M.Sc in Biotechnology Engineering both from Uppsala
University. She is currently enrolled as a PhD at Karolinska
Institute where she is researching the factors that influence
the dynamics of European research collaboration networks.
Her current work interests are Social Network Analysis, innovation
and R&D related policy issues, R&D indicators, life
sciences related questions.
Before joining Technopolis, Pauline worked as a researcher
for the IPTS-JRC, European Commission in Seville, Spain.
Pauline speaks Swedish, English, French, Spanish and German.
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Ingeborg
Meijer joined Technopolis Amsterdam in 2006. Before joining
the company, she worked for 10 years at the Dutch Advisory
Council on Health Research (RGO), where she was involved in
priority setting in health research, science policy, knowledge
infrastructure and technology development in the health care
sector. In recent years, she has published reports and advised
government in the fields of genomics, medical biotechnology,
infectious diseases, pharmaceuticals, and innovation in healthcare.
She was previously a research scientist at Celltech plc in
Slough, in the UK. Ingeborg holds a PhD in (molecular) medicine
from the University of Leiden, and an MsC in (medical) biology
from the University of Amsterdam. She is fluent in English
and Dutch and has a working knowledge of German.
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Michal
Miedzinski joined Technopolis in March 2006 as consultant.
He has more than four years of operational experience in the
field of regional innovation. Michal holds a Masters degree
in Regional Economic Planning (honours) from Warsaw University
(2001) and Master of Arts in European Public Affairs (honours)
from University of Maastricht and EIPA (2000). He has studied
in Poland, the Netherlands and Belgium (KULeuven).
Prior to joining Technopolis he worked for two years as consultant
and researcher for European regional networks with a focus
on innovation policy (IRE and ERIK networks). After arriving
in Brussels three years ago, he did an internship at the European
Commission's Regional Policy DG (Innovative Actions Unit)
where he analysed Regional Programmes of Innovative Actions.
He started his professional career in a small research company
in Warsaw where he was analyst in the field of e-government
and e-business.
Michal has published several articles on regional innovation
policy and strategies. His current research interest is regional
policy intelligence tools.
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Bastian
Mostertjoined Technopolis Amsterdam as a consultant in
April 2008. He holds an MSc in Science and Innovation Management
from Utrecht University. His specialisations are in medical
biotechnology and in life sciences issues.
He had undertaken an internship, as part of his graduation
project, with Technopolis Netherlands in 2007. During this
period, he completed his MSc thesis about system failures
in the health related domain of the Dutch life sciences innovation
system. He also developed a quantitative evaluation methodology
to assess societal impact of health research at the Leiden
University Medical Center). Bastian was invited to present
the results of his graduation project both at the ‘Science
& Technology in Society 2008 Graduate Student Conference’
at the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS) in Washington D.C. and at the ‘Technology, Management
and Policy Graduate Consortium 2008’ at Utrecht University.
His current research interest is mainly focused on the assessment
of societal and economic impact of health research.
Bastian is fluent in Dutch (mother tongue) and English.
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Monique
Nagle joined Technopolis Amsterdam as a consultant in
December 2007.
She was born in Colorado and moved to the Netherlands when
she was eleven. She is a BSc. graduate of Utrecht University
where she also gained an MSc in Science and Innovation Management.
Her specialisation was in Energy and Materials.
Her MSc examined cooperation between the Netherlands and the
US in the field of technology start-ups. It was based on research
carried out at the Netherlands Office for Science and Technology
(NOST) in Silicon Valley, California. NOST is a Dutch government
agency that acts as the liaison point for Dutch parties wishing
to form partnership with American organisations. It also gathers
information on US technology developments, which it reports
to the Netherlands by means of articles and conferences. Her
thesis was presented at various conferences. These included
the ‘Dutch Business Breakfast’ at Stanford University,
the ‘Technology, Management and Policy Graduate Consortium’
at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, and the European
Commission’s 2007 Conference on Corporate R&D in
Seville, Spain.
At Technopolis she is involved in projects concerning regional
innovation strategies, cluster development, energy and environment-related
topics, evaluation of national innovation policies and research
institute strategies, and international cooperation and benchmarking
Monique is fluent in Dutch and English.
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Lars
Niklasson was awarded a PhD in Political Science from
Uppsala University, Sweden. He has taught Public Administration
at Uppsala University and the University of Pittsburgh. Lars
also has a long standing interest in innovation policy.
Before joining Faugert & Co in 2008 he worked at the Ministry
of Enterprise and the Swedish Agency for Public Management,
where he evaluated regional development policy, partnerships
and devolution. Previously he worked at the Ministry of Education
and the Agency for Higher Education, the Confederation of
Professional Associations (SACO) and IBM Sweden.
Lars speaks fluent English and some German in addition to
native Swedish.
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Anne-Cécile
Ollivier joined Technopolis UK as a consultant in 2006.
Anne-Cécile holds a Master’s degree in Consulting
and Management from the Institute of Business Administration
of Boulogne-sur-Mer (France), and a BA in Business Management
and Economics, from the Universities of Brest (France) and
Coleraine (Northern Ireland). Anne-Cécile is fluently
tri-lingual (French, English and Italian) and has a working
knowledge of German.
Anne-Cécile joined Technopolis after completing a stage
at the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry where
she gained experience of evaluation, policy and legislation.
She previously worked as an economic adviser in a French Chamber
of Trade and as a project assistant for the Euro Info Centre
of Perugia, in Italy.
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Viola
Peter started to work as senior consultant for the Brussels
based office of Technopolis in October 2005. She has a background
in the field of innovation studies including science and technology
policy analysis, indicators, evaluation, knowledge-based technologies,
and innovation systems. Prior to joining Technopolis Viola
worked for five years at the European Commission's Research
Directorate in the area of economic analysis and indicators.
Before coming to Brussels, she worked as researcher in the
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research,
Karlsruhe, Germany.
She has a strong interest in S&T indicators and is currently
involved in a study on Regional Key Figures which aims at
developing a coherent set of indicators at regional level.
She is leading a study on eco-innovation in the Europe Innova
Innovation Watch initiative and co-managing the ERAWATCH Baseload
inventory.
Viola studied at the University of Trier and Sophia University
(Tokyo) and holds a Master of economics, a Master of Japanese
studies (both 1994), and a Ph.D. in economics (2000), all
from the University of Trier. She is fluent in German, English
and French and manages Japanese, and a bit of Dutch.
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Effie
Pitsaros joined Technopolis Brighton in January 2008.
Effie carried out doctoral research at the University of Sussex
on the impact of national, European and international institutions
on the EU’s policy toward the Central and East European
Countries in the areas of the environment, agriculture and
food safety. She also has a MA in International Relations
from the San Francisco University and a BA in Political Science
from the Panteion University in Athens.
She has considerable experience in consultancy, evaluation,
policy analysis and research. This has been gained through
involvement in projects that have been mostly international
in scope. She has worked for clients such as the European
Commission, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, the World Trade Organization and the International
Atomic Energy Agency as well as by departments of the Greek
and UK Governments.
Effie in fluent in English and Greek, has strong Spanish competency
and some French.
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Alexandra
Rammer's primary fields of expertise are SME policy, innovation
policy, cluster building, and the introduction of Information
and Communication Technologies (ICTs). She has particular
experience in ‘e-related' issues such as e-content,
e-skills and e-business and has conducted numerous evaluations
and strategy projects in these areas.
Before joining Technopolis, Alexandra was a management consultant
with Booz.Allen&Hamilton in Vienna, where she worked on
projects in both the public and private sectors. The main
emphasis of her work was on telecommunications and public
policy design and implementation. Alexandra holds a Master's
degree in Political Science and History from the University
of Salzburg, an Honorary Degree in European Community Law
from the University of Bordeaux and a Master's Degree in International
Relations and International Business from Georgetown University,
Washington DC. She is fluent in German, English, French and
Spanish, and has working knowledge of Russian.
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Ruta
Rannala joined Technopolis in August 2007, as the associated
partner-consultant of our Tallinn office. She has 20 years
of experience in higher education, training and consultancy
in the fields of engineering, business development and strategic
development of quality infrastructure (metrology, standardisation,
business excellence).
Originally a product development engineer, Ruta worked for
nine years as a lecturer at Tallinn University of Technology.
In 1998 she joined the Ministry of Economic Affairs as Head
of the Technical Infrastructure Division. She was in charge
of policy and strategy development of national system of metrology,
accreditation, standardisation and conformity assessment,
and organisational development (establishing the Estonian
Standardisation Centre, Central Office of Metrology, Estonian
Quality Award). Recently, she has been involved in business
and organisational development, starting the operations of
the representative office of Enterprise Estonia (Agency of
Ministry of Economic Affairs) in St.Petersburg, where she
gained valuable international business and consultancy experience.
After returning to Estonia in 2006, she has worked in the
same field as an independent business consultant advising
the Estonian companies on marketing and business development
projects in North-Western Russia and Moscow.
Ruta holds a diploma in engineering and an MSc (Engineering)
from State University of Technology and Design (St.Petersburg,
Russia). She is bilingual (Estonian and Russian), works fluently
in English and has a good knowledge of Finnish.
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Hélène
Rouèche is Office Manager for Technopolis France.
She joined the company in February 2001 from a private sector
business where she held responsibility for the import and
export of goods. Prior to this, Hélène worked
for major public institutions, which included INRIA and LEST/CNRS
where she was involved in the management of European Projects.
Within Technopolis France, Hélène holds full
responsibility for internal administration which includes
supporting project managers with assistance on project administration,
arranging and co-ordinating meetings with clients, travel
arrangements, dealing with suppliers and budget monitoring.
Hélène holds a BA in applied foreign languages
from the University of Aix en Provence and an M.A in Business
and Management Sciences from the CNAM (Conservatoire National
des Arts et Métiers) in Paris where she is currently
studying Financial Diagnosis and Strategy.
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Miriam
Ruiz Yaniz was born in Bilbao (Basque Country), Spain
in 1982. She studied business administration at the "Universidad
Comercial de Deusto" (Bilbao), where she obtained her
MBA. After working in different fields like consultancy with
Deloitte & Touche Brussels, marketing in L'Oreal Madrid
and logistics in a paper producing company (Fabrisa in Zamudio,
Spain) she re-oriented her carrier to European affairs. She
was awarded a Masters by the University of Louvain-la-Neuve
(UCL), Belgium in 2006, having followed a multidisciplinary
course on European economy, law and history with a specialization
in European policies. Her mother tongues are Spanish and Basque
and she speaks fluent French and English. She joined Technopolis
Brussels in August 2006 and is currently working on a project
mapping sectoral innovation systems in Europe and on the ERAWATCH
research policy monitoring exercise, both for the European
Commission.
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Petra
Salino is a behavioural scientist with a specialism in
the pedagogical aspects of working life. Petra joined Faugert
& Co Utvärdering 2003 and has since then participated
in and conducted several evaluation projects focusing
on issues concerning working life, competence development,
organization development, graduate schools etc. Her
working experience includes both the private and public sector
and research on working life.
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Henrik
Segerpalm joined Technopolis in Sweden 2005 and has participated
in several evaluations of R&D programmes and organisational
development. He holds a Master of Political Science from Stockholm
University and a Bachelor in Contemporary History from Södertörns
University College in Stockholm.
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James
Stroyan joined Technopolis in February 1995 and is
a senior consultant working primarily on the design, management
and evaluation of science and innovation policies and programmes.
In recent years much of James’ work has focused on public
RTD initiatives and programmes that support knowledge transfer
and the commercial exploitation of public sector research.
James is currently carrying out evaluations of the ESRC’s
Social Science Week and SEEDA’s recently launched Innovation
Advisory Service, and is supporting the UK Office of Science
and Innovation with its annual survey of knowledge transfer
in Public Sector Research Establishments. James is also currently
leading a consortium that is evaluating aspects of the European
Standardisation system on behalf of DG Enterprise and Industry.
Other recent studies include an evaluation of the impacts
of the EC Framework Programmes in the UK on behalf of the
UK Office of Science and Technology and an evaluation of the
Design Council’s pilot Regional Design Programme.
Prior to joining Technopolis, James worked as a company manager
and as an analyst for a large manufacturing company. He holds
a BA (Hons) degree in Psychology from the University of Sussex.
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Irene
Tanzberger has been working as Office
Manager for Technopolis Austria since April 2003. She is responsible
for all internal administrational functions and provides general
project management support. Organising meetings, scheduling
appointments and making travel arrangements as well as credit-control
and pre-book-keeping lie within her responsibility. She is
the point of contact for external as well as internal clients
and suppliers.
Irene holds the Cambridge First, Advanced and Proficiency
Certificate in English and has a basic knowledge of French.
Additionally, she holds the ECDL (European Computer Driving
License) and is a qualified web designer.
Before joining Technopolis, Irene was a co-ordinator for a
commercial education programme. She also has extensive work
experience with international companies such as the Berlitz
Language School, the development department for speech recognition
at Philips, and a charitable youth organisation called "Bauorden".
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Brigitte
Tiefenthaler joined Technopolis in February 2007 as a
senior consultant.
Before joining Technopolis Brigitte worked for nearly 6 years
as an expert for the Austrian Council for Research and Technology
Development, which advises the Austrian Government on research,
technology and innovation policy. She was involved in the
development of strategies and recommendations in fields including
sustainable development, nanotechnology, gender issues and
the promotion of women in science. She has extensive knowledge
of Austrian research policy, the structure and characteristics
of the Austrian research and innovation system and the funding
and financing of RTD in Austria.
Prior to this Brigitte worked as a head of unit for industrial
technologies and transport at the Bureau for International
Research and Technology Cooperation in Vienna (now FFG), and
as a project leader at the Institute for Polymer Technology
at Joanneum Research in Leoben.
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Jon
van Til joined Technopolis Amsterdam in May 2007. He is
specialised in science and innovation policy on both regional
as well as national level. His activities include international
benchmarks and policy studies, as well as evaluation of Research
& Development programmes. Jon has a special interest in
foresight and consensus tools (road maps, scenarios) and systemic
innovation approaches (clusters, innovation systems) for emerging
technologies.
Before joining Technopolis, Jon investigated sustainability
aspects of nanotechnology at the Innovation Studies department
at the Utrecht University and was assistant teacher of several
innovation related courses at the same institute. Jon holds
a Msc. in Science and Innovation from the University of Utrecht.
He wrote his thesis at the Institute for Technology Assessment
(ITAS) in Karlsruhe on the contribution of foresight tools
to the cluster approach. In this study he developed technology
roadmaps for clusters of nanotechnology SME’s.
Jon is fluent in English and Dutch and has a good working
understanding of German.
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Helen
Tueni joined Technopolis Belgium in 2007 where she works
as Executive Assistant and is in charge of Communication.
She has a degree in Public Relations (obtained with honours
at the HELB in Brussels). Helen did her final year internship
at Technopolis where she implemented a communication plan
for the ERAWATCH Network, including the setting-up of the
website www.erawatch-network.eu and developing a visual identity.
Helen has developed a particular interest in the way PR strategies
have been used by some energy companies to address their responsibility
regarding global warming. As a result, she wrote her final
degree dissertation on this topic of “Global Warming:
When oil giants use PR-tactics to protect their interests”.
Helen Tueni is currently responsible for managing the look
and content of the ERAWATCH Network ASBL website. She’s
also deals with membership management, invoicing issues and
organisation of network meetings. More recently, she has set-up
and implemented the extranet system “My EWN” which
is currently in pilot phase.
Helen’s mother tongue is French. She has an advanced
level in English and an intermediate level in Dutch and Spanish.
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Geert
van der Veen is a senior consultant in Amsterdam with
more than 15 years of experience in the field of innovation
and sustainable technologies. He is Dutch and holds an MSc
in Chemical Engineering from Twente University. Geert is fluent
in English and Dutch and has a working knowledge of German.
Within Technopolis Geert is mainly involved in projects related
to innovation programmes, research institutes and innovation
agencies. Quite often he is leading projects related to sustainability.
Recent projects in which he was involved are evaluation of
the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology VIB, evaluating of
Dutch LTI initiative (Leading Technological Institutes), Evaluation
of Dutch Technology Foundation STW and a study for the Ministry
of Environment on financing sustainable technology start-ups.
Geert began working as a researcher at TNO Environmental Technology
in 1988. He moved to Senter (The Dutch Agency for Technology
Implementation) in 1989 where he was a project officer for
various Environmental Technology programmes and co-ordinator
for programme monitoring and evaluation. During the last few
years of his period with Senter he was Director of the Economy,
Ecology and Technology Programme Office. Prior to joining
Technopolis, Geert worked at the Wageningen Research Institute
for Agrotechnological and Food Innovations (2001-2003) as
Director of the Business Unit for Renewable Resources and
Biorelated Products.
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Wieneke
Vullings has worked for the Technopolis Group since 2005.
She is attached to the Amsterdam office, but currently acts
as representative for the Technopolis Group in Brazil (São
Paulo).
Wieneke has been involved in work relating to innovation policy
design and evaluation and she has a particularly strong history
in life sciences and its applications in food, agriculture
and medicine. Recent projects include an evaluation of the
commercialisation activities of the Netherlands Genomics Initiative,
and the design of a manual for demand-driven research programming
for Flemish competence centres and research centres. In 2006
she has been responsible for the design and organisation of
Trend Chart Policy Workshops on behalf of the European Commission’s
DG Enterprise and Industry.
Before joining Technopolis, Wieneke worked as researcher/advisor
at the TNO Innovation Policy Group and she carried out research
projects for the Dutch Advisory Council for Science and Technology
Policy (AWT) in The Hague and the Science and Technology Office
of the Dutch Embassy in Washington D.C. Wieneke holds a BA
in Arts and Sciences and a MA in Science and Technology Studies
from Maastricht University, and she studied at the Manchester
Business School (PREST). Currently she is following an MA
programme in Political Science for professionals at the Leiden
University and the University of São Paulo. She is
fluent in Dutch and English, and has a basic working knowledge
of Portuguese.
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Jacek
Walendowski joined the Belgium office of Technopolis in
2004, as a consultant primarily responsible for carrying out
innovation and regional policy studies. Since 2003, he has
been the country correspondent for Poland in the framework
of the European TrendChart on Innovation project of the European
Commission (DG Enterprise). Recently, he has been involved
in various other European projects in the area of innovation.
From May 2001 to August 2004, he worked for an international
consultancy (ADE S.A., Belgium), where he took part in projects
covering the areas of innovation, research and development
in the SME sector (notably a study for DG Enterprise on Innovation
Policy in seven candidate countries in 2002-2003). Jacek previously
worked in DG Enterprise at the European Commission (2000-2001)
in the unit dealing with innovation policy. He holds an economic
degree from the Business and Administration School (Warsaw),
as well as European studies degrees from College of Europe
(Natolin) and Central European University (Budapest). He is
fluent in three languages (Polish, English, and French), and
speaks some Portuguese.
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Katharina
Warta is a senior consultant in our Vienna office,
to which she moved in 2005 after six years in Technopolis
France. She works primarily on evaluating and benchmarking
research and innovation policy, with a special focus on organisational
development. She has experience in leading research and evaluation
projects, combining quantitative analysis with a qualitative
approach. Recent projects include an evaluation the French
policy of establishing 4-year performance contracts for basic
research between the state and the universities, a strategic
study on the technological impact of the Austrian coordination
of integrated projects in the field of IST, and an evaluation
of the Austrian Research Fund’s mobility programmes.
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Ulrike
Weinspach has over 12 years experience of project management
and consultancy in a range of fields and countries (including
EU Member States, African countries and China). She has an
MA in Development Economics and East Asian Studies –
including Chinese literature as well as post-graduate studies
in intercultural Didactics and management certificates. She
speaks English and French (fluent) and German (mother tongue)
as well as some Chinese and Spanish. Since September 2005,
she is working with Technopolis as the senior network administrator
for the ERAWATCH Network framework contract. She has significant
experience in a range of skills related to project and programme
management including: project cycle management (PCM) and logical
framework techniques, monitoring and evaluation methods (general
and project tailored), moderating techniques, participatory
techniques, organizational support, intercultural communication,
women's promotion and gender issues.
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Elisabeth
Zaparucha is an economist specialised in European affairs.
She holds a BA in Economics from Sussex University, a Master
in European Studies from the University of Grenoble and a
Master 2 in Entreprise and the European Market from the University
of Paris Sud-XI). In 2004-2005, she was a trainee at the European
commission (DG Economic and financial affairs in Luxembourg)
and finished her master degree with a traineeship at the European
group of the Commissariat Général du Plan ,
where she participated in a study on eco-technologies.
At Technopolis, she is currently working for the INRA (National
Institute for agronomic research) Prospective Unit (literature
review, benchmarking studies and interviews). She has worked
on major evaluations for the EU and UNESCO and participated
in two ERA-nets (ERA-NETs INNER et ForSociety). She is contributes
as National correspondent, to benchmarking studies of national
innovation policies (Trend Chart) and national research policies
(ERAWATCH).
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Frank
Zuijdam joined Technopolis in September 2007.
Frank holds an MA in Political Science and Contemporary History
and a PhD on Political History, both from the University of
Amsterdam. Before he joined Technopolis he worked at the Nederlandse
Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), the Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research. At NWO he held the positions
of programme manager and senior policy advisor. He was also
seconded to the Dutch Innovation Platform, a high level advisory
board chaired by the Prime Minister.
His focus at Technopolis is on issues related to science policy.
As a consultant he worked for a variety of clients including
the Department of EWI in Flanders (Economic Affairs, Science
and Innovation), the Association of Universities in the Netherlands,
and the Departments of Economic Affairs (EZ) and Education,
Culture and Science (OCW) in the Netherlands..
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